Tag: Aptio V

AMI announces UEFI 2.6 and ACPI 6.1 support

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AMI announced that their UEFI implementation, Aptio V, supports UEFI 2.6 and ACPI 6.1

American Megatrends Announces Aptio V Compliance with UEFI 2.6 and ACPI v6.1

AMI is proud to announce Aptio® V support and compliance for UEFI 2.6 and ACPI v6.1 specifications. As a leader in the BIOS/UEFI firmware industry and board member in the UEFI community, AMI keeps up with the latest upgrades and specifications to better serve its customers in the technology industry. Aptio® V, AMI’s flagship UEFI firmware, is developed according to UEFI specifications and the added support for UEFI 2.6 and ACPI v6.1 gives manufacturers the ability to enhance select platforms based on the latest UEFI specifications. The newest specifications, announced this past March, keeps up with the increasing expectations of the market, providing OEMs and ODMs greater manageability across various user systems and creating more expansive support for newer platforms and designs. By integrating and expanding support for UEFI 2.6 and ACPI v6.1 on its core UEFI firmware, Aptio V, AMI standardizes operating systems booting and optimizes pre-boot applications for its customers.

Full PR:

https://ami.com/news/press-releases/?PressReleaseID=373

 

AMI announces NIST SP800-155-compatible UEFI

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Today AMI announced an update for their Aptio V UEFI Firmware. For security perspective, this release is supposed to be compatible with NIST SP 800-155, BIOS Integrity Measurement Guidelines. Quoting an excerpt from their press release:

“In its Special Publication 800-155, NIST outlines the fundamentals of BIOS integrity measurement. This description includes a method to determine if the BIOS has been modified as well as the method for reporting and mitigating attacks against the BIOS. “These guidelines describe what is needed to establish a chain of trust for the BIOS,” commented Subramonian Shankar, President and CEO of American Megatrends. “In accordance with the NIST SP 800-155 guidelines, our Aptio V Firmware solution provides a means of generating and collecting the original BIOS measurements, called ‘the Golden Measurement Generation’, along with a means of storing the measurements that is either tamper-resistant or tamper-evident, called ‘the Collection Agent’ and a means of conveying the measurements to an analyzing agent, called the ‘Transmission and Reporting Agents’.” “Our goal in developing a NIST SP 800-155 compatible solution for Aptio V was to demonstrate to our customers that AMI is deeply committed to developing the most secure and tamper-resistant UEFI solutions available in the market today,” he commented.

I’m not sure if previous releases or other versions of AMI’s firmware products were/are SP800-155-compatible. Last time I looked at SP800-155, I thought it was still DRAFT, so I am not sure how that impacts compatibility.

On a nontechnical note, look at all the spaces that AMI uses in their press release URLs, yuck.

More Information:

http://ami.com/news/press-releases/?PressReleaseID=318&/American%20Megatrends%20Announces%20New%20Solution%20Compatible%20with%20NIST%20SP%20800-155%20%27BIOS%20Integrity%20Measurement%20Guidelines%27%20for%20Aptio%20V%20UEFI%20Firmware/
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/american-megatrends-announces-new-solution-compatible-with-nist-sp-800-155-bios-integrity-measurement-guidelines-for-aptio-v-uefi-firmware-300107720.html